Theme: Claiming Ownership of Your MLE Practices

Media Text: Wikispaces, media texts used in mini-lesson plans

Learning Objectives:

• Reflect on and revise a lesson based on a media literacy framework.
• Create Wikispaces pages with functioning links and embedded media.
• Understand the broad goals of taking responsibility for creating, reflecting on, and assessing the long-term lesson.
• Appreciate the value of public, digital, and collaborative lesson planning and shared reflection.

5:00 pm
Ice-breaker (10 minutes)
- Tell us about your expedition. What's the best expedition product you've seen or done yourself?

5:10 pm
Mini-lesson presentations (1 hour)
- John demos puppet mini-lesson-plan. Emily and Dave provide warm/cool feedback.
- Each person gets 15 minutes for presenting and doing warm and cool feedback.
- Each moderator REFRAMES feedback on easel paper to connect to MLE/concepts.

6:10 pm
Reflection through the assigned reading by Thoman & Jolls (15 minutes)
- How did your lesson engage with this question?
- Why is asking and answering these questions important?
- Concluding idea: Media literacy education is a practice; there is no singular way of teaching it. You have the opportunity to incorporate MLE concepts and lessons into your classroom according to your own motivations!

6:25 pm -- BREAK --

6:40 pm (20 minutes)
Introduce long-term goals for final assignment and Wikispaces

7:00 pm (20 minutes)
Discussion about “what it means to publish” or be transparent

7:20 pm (40 minutes)
Activity: Making a Wikipage






Assignment Sheet for Final Project